KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 27, 29 November 1928, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE

SATUBDAY

High melodrama of the most thrilling sort combines with the delicious comedy that only Wallace Beery and Raymond . Hatton can provide and on absorbing love thoine. "Partners in Crime" is a decided step from tho beaten, path in team comedi»s. Whereas •tiMclx comedies in the past have been little more than a collection of loosely joined incidents designed solely to create laughs, this picture tells a. thrilling story. Incidents of the story provide richly for laughter, but the laughs are subordinate to the absorbing plot interest. The theme of "Partners in Crime" is the ever-thrilling one of the underworld. The locale of the picture is a great American city torn by crime and: cowed by the.ruthless savagery of uncontrolled gangsters. "A WOMAN'- WAY" "A Woman's Way" the Columbia production at the King George Theatre on Saturday, gives a vivid picture of the Parisian underworld and the colourful life along the boulevards. It is a drama which, revolves around the dancing girl, known as the '' Frozen Flame." This girl charmingly portrayed by Margaret Livingston, is utterly indifferent to men until she meets an attractive young American. The awakening of love, the fear of the girl for «m apache and her rise to premier danseuse at the Paris Opera furnish material for an intriguing and fascinating photoplay. There are thrilling sequences on the housetops in the Latin Quarter, tense moments in night clubs and beautiful scenes amid the luxury of iParife mansions* Columbia deserves great credit for bringing to this screen a film of the French fashion capital which gives a true picture of life there. The bath establishments, quaint apartments in the Latin Quarter and cafes arc so natural that one might inigine the film, "was made in France. TUESDAY. "TIP TOES" A comedy packed with thrilK There is a weird and entertaining nightmare scene in "Tip-Toes," the feature to be screened at the King George Theatre on Tuesday, in which a. strange company of famous people cavort, while Dorothy Gish as the penniless heroine of the story tosses guiltily on the silken bed in the expensive hotel suite which she is occupying" under false pretences. Michael Arlen is seen chatting Avith Shakespeare; Mile. Lenglen cries because a mediaeval woman snatches her tennis ball; Mary Queen of Scots flirts with a modern young; man—and it all ends in a puff of smoke, with Nelson Keys and Will Rogers, both sheathed in steel armour, rescuing Dorothy. And when she awakens and realises "where she is, reality seems more distressing than tho nightanare for she j doesn 't know when the irate hotel manager may appear with a policeman to take herself and her tricky "uncles" who are plotting to marry her to a wealthy young English lord, away tO one of those awful English gaols which Oscar Wikle described so vividly. "Tip Toes"' is an unusual picture in more ways than one, because it was produced in London, England.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday A Universal Super Masterpiece THE PICTURE THAT HAS SET THE WHOLE WORLD TALKING. "THE FOREIGN LEGION" Red hot sands under a blazing sky merging from gold to scarlet! Heat that is intolerable!1 The dunes fading away a* far as the eye can see, offering neither shelter nor solace, their silhouetted oxitlinc loapdng from one undulating peak to another like purple velvet against a background of shimmering gold tissue! Egypt! And across the face of this desolate expanse, a thin column, of men wends its way. Men of the Foreign Legion of Prance, stern, unrelenting in the course of then; duty, each with a crime back somewhere in the calendar of his memory, or an indiscretion that banished him from his own country! Their leader, Colonel Destin, grim determined to take toll from the bitter fate that had caused his banishment too! And, among all the motley erew z Private Smith.— erect of bearing, strong of character, a man among men with, an obvious secret

sorrow! Fate threw him and the colonel together —and always it seemed that the leader's wrath, was to be vented on this uncomplaining soul. We flash back to England. Dick Farquhar, alias Private Smith, successful soldier and English notable, in love, but making the greatest sacrifice a man can miake for the woman of his heart —taking the blame for a crime committed by that woman's cur huseband, that she may not suffer disgrace. That was the reason that brought him. to the sands of Egypt. And as the sand ran out, one of the most complicated and involved dramas that was ever staged on the barren breasts of the desert is played out. The theme is the greatest man can conceive, the love of a Father for his Son. And no man ever did make a greater sacrifice, ever could than that of this Father for the Son whom he fought and savedj when it was too late.

Although Lower Hutt residents cannot boast of a beach to spend' their Sunday's swimming they certainly have the next best thing with the advent of the Riddiford Baths ,and last week end a large crowd spent many happy hours in and out of the water. Some may think it a little early to venture in to clear sparkling water but on Sunday the temperature reached sixty-five degrees, which is very good for so early in the season.

You can make a set of loose covers if you are careful just to cut in brown paper each piece to the size of your chairs and couch. Pin the paper over each section and cut the covers by those paper patterns. Piping is done just by edging one side of each section with bands of the material cut on the cross and folded over a piece of cord before machining.